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After speaking with U.S. President Barack Obama by phone, John and Diane Foley talk to reporters, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014, outside their home in Rochester, N.H. Their son James Foley was abducted in November 2012 while covering the Syrian conflict. Islamic militants posted a video showing his murder on Tuesday and said they killed him because the U.S. had launched airstrikes in northern Iraq. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
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Attorney General Eric Holder talks with Charnell Hurn, 20, a student at St. Louis Community College Florissant Valley, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014 in Ferguson, Mo. Holder arrived in Missouri on Wednesday, a small group of protesters gathered outside the building where a grand jury could begin hearing evidence to determine whether a Ferguson police officer who shot 18-year-old Michael Brown should be charged in his death. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool)Pablo Martinez Monsivais

National news:

President Obama today delivered an angry condemnation of the Islamic militant group believed to be behind the beheading of an American journalist, labeling the group a cancer and calling on Muslims around the world to reject its brand of "hateful terrorism." (Los Angeles Times)

Darren Wilson, the Ferguson, Mo., police officer whose fatal shooting of Michael Brown touched off more than a week of demonstrations, suffered severe facial injuries, including an eye socket fracture, and was nearly beaten unconscious by Brown moments before firing his gun, according to a source close to the department's top brass. (Fox News)

Same-sex couples will have to wait longer to begin marrying in Virginia after the U.S. Supreme Court agreed today to delay an appeals court ruling striking down the state's gay marriage ban. (Associated Press)

A friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is expected to plead guilty to impeding the investigation into the deadly attack. (Associated Press)

SeaWorld has decided it will not seek to overturn a court ruling that has kept its trainers from getting into the water with the parks' killer whales. (Los Angeles Times)

Prosecutors in the bribery and corruption trial of former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell tried today to cast doubt on an accountant's testimony for the defense that the governor's personal finances were sound. (Reuters)

An area of thunderstorms in the Atlantic could organize into the fourth tropical cyclone and the third named storm of the 2014 hurricane season. (Washington Post)

Six people were injured, one critically, when a lightning bolt struck during a middle school football practice in southern New Mexico. (Reuters)

Jennifer Hudson's half-brother, Stephen Angelo Simpson, is facing felony charges after allegedly stabbing a man several times before fleeing in Van Buren County, Mich., on Tuesday night. (New York Daily News)

International news:

The U.S. stood firm today in its fight against Islamic State militants who beheaded a U.S. journalist in Iraq, pledging to continue attacking the group despite its threats to kill another American hostage. (Associated Press)

Hamas has denied that the head of its military wing was killed in an Israeli air strike, as it warned international airliners against flying into Tel Aviv amid a re-escalation of the Gaza conflict. (The Telegraph)

At least 36 people, including several children, were killed in Japan today when landslides triggered by torrential rain slammed into the outskirts of the western city of Hiroshima. (Daily Times)

Opposition leader Imran Khan opened negotiations today with the Pakistani government, a lawmaker from his party said, in an effort to end protests against the prime minister and overcome a political impasse. (Reuters)

Afghanistan ordered a New York Times correspondent to leave the country in 24 hours and barred him from returning over a story he wrote saying a group of officials were considering seizing power because of the impasse over who won its recent presidential election. (Associated Press)

An Indian woman who has staged a 14-year hunger strike against rights abuses in the country's northeast broke down in tears today as she was finally released from a hospital jail. (AFP News)

A children's fashion show with guns in Moscow reportedly designed by a 10-year-old girl gives an illuminating glimpse into the way the Ukrainian crisis is seen by many Russians. (Daily Mail)

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